Message 77590 - Python tracker

Message77590

Author	brett.cannon
Recipients	brett.cannon
Date	2008-12-11.06:19:13
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Message-id	<1228976357.63.0.133847904092.issue4626@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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When compile() is called with a string it is a reasonable assumption that it has already been decoded. But this is not in fact the case and leads to errors when trying to use non-ASCII identifiers:: >>> source = "# coding=latin-1\n\u00c6 = '\u00c6'" >>> compile(source, '<test>', 'exec') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<test>", line 2 Ã = 'Ã' ^ SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier >>> compile(source.encode('latin-1'), '<test>', 'exec') <code object <module> at 0x389cc8, file "<test>", line 2>

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When compile() is called with a string it is a reasonable assumption
that it has already been decoded. But this is not in fact the case and
leads to errors when trying to use non-ASCII identifiers::

 >>> source = "# coding=latin-1\n\u00c6 = '\u00c6'"
 >>> compile(source, '<test>', 'exec')
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "<test>", line 2
     Ã = 'Ã'
        ^
 SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier
 >>> compile(source.encode('latin-1'), '<test>', 'exec')
 <code object <module> at 0x389cc8, file "<test>", line 2>

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